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(No Model) C. P. FRANCISCO.

BUCKLE.

No. 587,571. Patented Aug. 8,1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. FRANCISCO, OF SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 587,571, dated August3, 1897.

Application iiled November 2, 1896. Serial No. 610.870. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. FRANCISCO, of San Diego, in the county ofSan Diego and State of California, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

lfIy invention is an improvement in buckles, and particularly in thatclass of buckles represented by my former patent, No. 561,308, dated June 2, 1896; and the invention consists in the novel constructions andcombinations hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front View, and Fig. 2 a sectional view,of my invention as in use. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of thebuckle. Fig. 4 is an edge view thereof. Fig. 5 is bottom plan view ofthe buckle.

The buckle-frame A has a tongue-barB and a tongue C pivoted thereto. Tothis tonguebar I hinge at one end the keeper D, which is in the natureof a frame having side bars E, connected at their outer ends by an endcross-bar F. At a point about midway their ends jthe side bars aredropped or depressed at e, and the dropped portions are connected by theintermediate cross-barG. This crossbar Gis arranged out of line with thebar F and the tongue-bar B and serves the double purpose of a keeper forthe hainestrap or holdback and as a base or fulcrum for the l keeper torock on against the collar in order to lift-the point of the tongue Cfrom the buckle-frame, the tongue having a shoulder projecting from itsbase in position to engage the keeper, as in my former patent beforereferred to. Y

The end cross-barF is preferably broadened, forming a vbroad surface,against which the thumb may be pressed in rocking the keeper in theoperation of the buckle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The buckle herein described consisting of the buckle-frame having atongue-bar, the keeper hinged to said tongue-bar and the tongue having ashoulder projecting from its base and engaged with the keeper., suchkeeper being providedwith an end cross-bar and with an intermediatefulcrum-bar arranged between the tongue-bar and the end cross-bar anddepressed below the same and arranged and adapted to serve as a fulcruminv rocking the keeper to lift the point of the tongue all substantiallyas shown and described.

' CHARLES F. FRANCISCO.

Vitnesses:

Mrs. G. M. DREW, MILLIE BERG.

